The End of Food: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Food Supply--And What We Can Do About It (Paperback)

~ Thomas F. Pawlick (Author) "THE TOMATO WAS THE LAST STRAW..." (more)
Key Phrases: North America, University of California, Green Revolution (more...)

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Product Description

An incident with a tennis ball-like tomato inspired award-winning Canadian journalist and part-time farmer Thomas Pawlick to write The End of Food. Today, we're facing an impending food crisis. Current food production methods used by corporate-run "factory farms" are sucking the nutrients out of the food we eat. Many times, what's replacing the missing nutrients is harmful--even toxic--to our bodies. Though the book, backed by hard-hitting evidence, paints a bleak picture, Pawlick makes it abundantly clear that it's not too late. The latter part of the book is devoted to the many ways that we can take back control of the food supply by becoming active at a local level. This is an essential handbook for informing ourselves about the frightening but real decline in the quality of the food we eat, and what we can do to stop it.

About the Author

Thomas Pawlick is an investigative science journalist with 30 years experience in the field. An experienced organic farmer, he is currently working as a journalism professor while helping his son develop a farm near Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Barricade Books; 1 edition (June 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569803021
• ISBN-13: 978-1569803028
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #634,029 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Scary but important, June 21, 2006

By	L. Morton (NWT) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Depressing and scary to read, but important all the same. This book sets out what I have been suspecting for a while now, with a lot I didn't even have a clue about. Something everyone should read, and then go and plant your garden!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good primer, but nothing new for those well-versed in the subject, September 6, 2007

By	food law analyst - See all my reviews

The Canadian perspective is interesting, but for those who have already read books like Fast Food Nation, Omnivore's Dilemma, etc., and who keep up on food issues, the book is nothing new. However, the chapter on loss of vitamin content in foods over the years was very interesting and helpful.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it for Chapter 3 alone., April 28, 2007

By	Emily Mathews (Rockland, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Chapter 3, which includes a thorough, although never complete (according to the author) list of what he calls a "Witches Brew" of "additives, pollutants, adulterants and poisons...that is becoming our food."
VERY easy to read and not hopeless---but there isn't an easy answer, either. Pawlick does hold US responsible for being the change we want to see in our food and in our world.